Tas. 6732. 
PRIMULA PROLIFERA. 
Native of the Eastern Himalaya, Khasia Mountains, and Java. 
Nat. Ord. Prrmunacrz.—Tribe Prrmunex. 
Genus Prrmuxa, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 631.) 
Primvta prolifera; elata, inflorescentia farinosa, foliis elongato-obovatis obtusis 
denticulatis rugosis efarinosis glabris v. subtus puberulis, scapo gracili foliis 
multo longiore, floribus verticillatis verticillis superpositis multifloris, bracteis 
lanceolatis v. infimis elongatis, calycis tubo hemispherico lobis brevibus triangu- 
laribus v. subulatis, corolle auree tubo calyce longiore ore annulato, limbi 
lobis obcordatis planiusculis, capsula globosa calyce inclusa, 
P. prolifera, Wall. in Astat. Research. vol. xiii. p. 372, t. 3, et in Roxb. Fl. Ind. 
Ed. Carey and Wall. vol. ii. p. 18; Duby in DC. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 34; 
Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 81; Zoll. in Nat. En. Gen. Arch. vol. ii. p 8; 
Zoll. et Morr. Syst. Veg. p. 44; Hook. f. Fl. Brit, Ind. vol. iii. p. 489. 
P. imperialis, Jungh. in Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch. vol. vii. p. 298; Miquel Fl. Ind. 
Bat. vol. ii. p. 1001. 
Canxrtenta chrysantha, De Vriese in Jaarboek der Maatch. van Tuinbow, 1850, 
p. 30 (cum ic. in Flore des Serres, vol. v. p. 50 iterata) ; Plant. Jungh. 
vol. i. p. 86. 
The introduction into cultivation of this fine primrose 
had long been regarded as a desideratum; and it occurred 
in a very unexpected way, by the announcement from my 
_ friend, Isaac Anderson, Henry, that he had. a living plant. 
of it in bis garden, with the information that it was raised 
from seeds sent to him from a great elevation in the Sikkim 
Himalaya by Mr. Elwes. Now, seeing that the only Indian 
habitat for this plant previously known was the Khasia 
‘Mountains of H. Bengal, at an elevation of only 4000 to 
6000 feet, I could (knowing his accuracy) only accept Mr. 
Anderson Henry’s statement with wonder. Shortly after- 
wards, however, when revising some very imperfect speci- 
mens of Primulas collected in India, and which I had been 
unable satisfactorily to determine when describing the 
genus in the “Flora of British India,’ I encountered a 
solitary fruiting example of this plant gathered by myself 
in the Lachen valley, far in the interior of Sikkim, in the 
year 1849, at an elevation of 12,000 feet ; and more recently 
I have received specimens collected at Jongri and Yakla, 
_altitudes 13,000 and 16,000 feet, by Mr. Clarke, both in 
_ the interior of Sikkim, thus tending to confirm Mr. Anderson 
JANUARY Ist, 1884. 
